Annually 30 varieties of wheat in Iran and 800 varieties in France are introduced to farmers
Deputy Minister of Agriculture announced the strengthening of wheat research institutes in the country and stated that we would conclude a contract for them, saying: “Our policy is to protect the state and, in parallel, to support the private sector.”
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Abbas Keshavarz, referring to the activities of the 6 wheat research institutes in the country, which recorded their number, added: “In the state and private transfer method, we must put aside the previous methods because it does not work economically, and the experiment should be revised and followed by local adaptations.
“We have started a program called PVS, which allows cultivating cultivars in different fields of agriculture, and each farmer would have to buy a variety in proportion to its climate,” he continued.
Undersecretary of State for Agriculture, emphasizing that there should be no hindrance in implementing for the speed and adaptation of the local and the private sector, “We need to be technical in agriculture because the history of agricultural consumption is outdated.
The farmer, pointing out that seed is a private seed business, added: overseeing, controlling, producing, and exporting and … are in the hands of the private sector and the government should not enter.
He noted that the government intervention in this area is intense and weak, adding that in the 30’s native wheat was collected and named, and since wheat was important for the country, in the 40’s the government used time to research the wheat from the FAO.
According to him, an annual maximum of 25-30 varieties in Iran for wheat and barley are introduced to farmers, which is more than 800 in France and 450 in Turkey.
“All the efforts of farmers, planners, policymakers, the private sector, the bank, etc., in the production of time answers that genetics, 60% of the production in the gene and 40% is related to the gene,” he said.
“Our policy is that governments have no right to create a monopoly for the producer, so we are not allowed to tell the farmer what seed and pest is used, but we should try to persuade the farmer,” he said.
